Show A SALVATION ARMY GENERALESS Sho Io a Great Success in Now York City and Creates a Surprise The Salvation Army has reached new and peculiarly interesting stag in its progress It has labored long and with much success in tho tenement house districts has mado somo progress among tho upper ten thousand and has now invaded Fifth avenue and tho inner ranks of tho Four Hundred This last advance ad-vance it owes entirely to Mrs Ballin ton Booth wifo of H H Booth the general of tho army She is tho daughter of an Episcopal Epis-copal clergyman and thcrcf oro held a good social rank in England where she mado the acquaintance of tho Rev Dr E Walpolo Warren now of Holy Trinity church at tho corner of Fortysecond street and Madison avenue New York Ho is tho reverend gentleman gen-tleman whose also was lately celebrated in the courts whero Holy Trinitys vestry was cited for violating the foreign contract law by importing a clergyman under contract Ho felt quito friendly to Mrs Ballington Booth and ho granted her the use of his church lecturo room to address audience of members of his congregation on tho methods and results of thojSalvation Army work in tho United States Tho cultured audienco were most agreeably surprised to wo in tho generates if such an expression be allowable a lady of great refinement and most pleasing appearance + ap-pearance with a captivating address and clear logical methods Sho told them that tho idea of confining Salvation Salva-tion Army work in America tho poor and tho outcasts was a great mistake SALVATION mis-take that in England Eng-land it had made > At2MY great progross v among tho well to M113 BAUUXCTOX BOOTH do and that in America whilo tho bass drum and tambourine lads and lasses expected to redeem tho drunken and dissolute they by no means designed to neglect tho wealthy It had long been her desire sho added to introduce in-troduce tho cultured few to tho work and tho work to them and now they must full to work Her success was immediate and quito surprising sur-prising She was invited to call on tho best people has received substantial assistance and held meetings in tho drawing rooms of ho most wealthy and in tho lecture rooms of several churches Tho ladies at whose houses sho held meetings sent out special invitations and tho rooms wero crowded an especially successful meeting being that at tho elegant Hammersley residence on Fifth avenue the invitations being sent out by Mrs Courtlandt da Peyster Field and her sister Miss Ham mersloy Mrs Booth and her husband havo since had to go south to organize bands of tho army but tho work on Fifth avenuo will be continued Tho Salvation Army now publishes at its Now York headquarters 111 Reado street a very readable and attractive monthly called All tho World which is tho army organ |